Lietuva prisijungė prie JAV inicijuoto bendro pareiškimo dėl dirbtinio intelekto galimybių partnerystės, kuriuo siekiama sustiprinti bendradarbiavimą šioje srityje su patikimais partneriais.

Pietų Korėjos teismas penktadienį buvusiai pirmajai šalies poniai Kim Keon-hee (Kim Keonhi), kuri jau atlieka bausmę dėl kitos korupcijos bylos, skyrė dar septynerius metus laisvės atėmimo dovanų už postus byloje.

Temperatures in Germany could hit 40C in some areas while French officials bring in alcohol restrictions to ease pressure on hospitals.

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BRUSSELS — This week’s extraordinary heat wave is the worst to ever hit Western Europe and could not have occurred without humans heating the planet by burning fossil fuels, scientists say.  Europeans from Spain to the United Kingdom have been sweltering under extreme heat this week, with temperatures surging to near or above 40 degrees Celsius even before peak summer takes hold.   New research published Friday finds that this kind of event would have been “virtually impossible” just 50 years ago, and has become vastly more likely even over the past two decades due to global warming.  The World Weather Attribution consortium, which includes scientists from Imperial College London and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, used peer-reviewed methods to compare this week’s heat wave to other hot European summers in 1976 and 2003.  “Over the full extent of this heat wave, we found that in the last 50 years … the chance of a heat wave like this has changed immensely,” said lead author Theodore Keeping, an extreme weather researcher at Imperial College London.  “This event would not have been possible in June without climate change,” he added. “The three-day [average] nighttime temperatures would not have been possible at any time of year without climate change, and the chance of the three-day maximum daily temperatures like this occurring at any time of the year has increased by over 500 times” since 1976.   By 1976, the planet had heated by just 0.3 C above preindustrial levels, rising to 0.6 C in 2003 and 1.4 C last year. There is scientific consensus that heat waves are becoming more frequent and hotter with every fraction of a degree. For the large Western and Central European region analyzed — which ranges from northern Spain and the U.K. into southern Sweden and eastern Poland — “this heatwave is the most severe ever recorded,” the scientists wrote.  The scientists also say that the daytime temperatures seen this week are now 10 times more likely to occur than during the brutal 2003 summer, when 70,000 people died from heat-related causes. This week’s high nighttime temperatures are even around 100 times more likely than they were 23 years ago.  Higher heat, higher humidity Climate change also made this event hotter. “A similar heat wave in June would have been about 3.5C cooler during the day in 1976 and about 2C cooler in 2003,” said Keeping. “The nighttime temperatures would have been about 2.4C cooler in 1976 and about 1.3C cooler in June 2003.” Besides comparing past temperatures across the wider Western European region, the scientists also looked at around 850 European cities and found that some 45 percent had broken their all-time “wet-bulb” temperature record.  Wet-bulb measurements combine dry heat temperature and humidity, and are used to assess the impact of heat on human health as they mimic the body’s ability to cool itself through sweating.  The record-smashing values suggest that “the health impacts of this heat wave are likely to be extremely high,” Keeping warned.  On top of that, many European capital cities are experiencing the hottest three-day period since 1950, when reliable record-keeping started.  “Due to global warming, these very high temperatures are now expected regularly during summer months in many capitals,” Keeping said. The research also found no influence of El Niño, the naturally occurring warming phenomenon that has just begun unfolding in the tropical Pacific, on this week’s European heat wave. “Scientists like me are beginning to sound like a broken record. We put out similar quotesyear after year reacting to heat extremes that climb ever higher,” said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London. “Yes, this is climate change, yes it’s us, no it’s not El Niño, yes we have the solutions, no we’re not implementing them fast enough,” she added.

Israeli and Lebanese delegations will continue their talks on Friday.

The US Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in its bid to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

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Rainbow flags are expected to flutter across Seattle's stadium on Friday when Iran meets Egypt in the World Cup Group G match as the city marks its annual Pride parade. The two countries last year asked for Pride-themed celebrations to be cancelled, a request FIFA denied. Players and officials of both countries now say they are focused on the game. 

Ivory Coast have reached the World Cup knockout rounds for the first time in four appearances after defeating Curaçao 2-0 on Thursday. The Elephants finished second in their group and will face either France or Norway in the Round of 16 on June 30.

Ivory Coast reaches World Cup knockout stage for the first time after Nicolas Pépé’s brace beats Curaçao 2-0, sparking huge celebrations in Abidjan.

Japan reach World Cup last 32 after 1-1 draw with Sweden on 26 June, prompting celebrations across Tokyo. , sparking huge celebrations in Tokyo’s Shibuya. They now face Brazil in the knockout stage.